Touching Corals - Glove or Bare Hand?

[secret_reefer337]

Always bare hands...nems, zoanthids, you name it. But some people have a very sensitive skin / body system so they are extra careful when touching some corals.

 

[Thespammailaccount]

Gloves? Wut r those?!

 

[Dolelo96]

Lol or the most beautiful! Ever seen how dangerous beautiful women are? Check you bank after a week lol

Lol! 36 years ago I met my husband in a bank. It just so happened I managed it!! His account was safer then.. I didn’t have a reef tank obsession;Happy

 

[jordan9095]

gloves help when they start sliming up.

 

[Terri Caton]

Bare hands. Have I ever gotten stung? Yup. Did it make me wear gloves? Nope

Starting a predictor tank so some of my devil my care practices will have to change

 

[krash7172]

Bare hands. I am careful around zoas and wash immediately. Don't touch your face! I removed the carpet nem in my avatar pic and it basically engulfed my bare hand. That was interesting

 

[Bryce M.]

Really depends on what I'm doing, frags or sick corals I don't want to stress I wear gloves

 

[stanleo]

I use my bare hands for everything. I have a long spine urchin and every now and then working in the tank i will hit a spine and it doesn't even tickle. In my last tank I had an infestation of bristle worms and would scoop them out with my hand and never bothered me a bit. I'm one of those weird people though that isn't even allergic to poison ivy. I can roll around in the stuff naked and not even itch.

 

[BarSnackz]

Used to wear ruber gloves up to my elbows - but, these days I just go bare hands in. The bottom of a chalice is super slimy and weird feeling. haha

 

[Indytraveler83]

I glove up. Had a reaction to something on live rock I bare handed when setting up the tank, so I figured I'd likely be sensitive to anything else that came after.